Yeah it wasn't a penalty, great play by Petry.
That being said, just came back from the game and here's my rant;
I drove 3 hours to go to the CTC for the home opener and I left pretty disappointed. We got outplayed badly. The boys came out flat. At the midway mark of the game we had 12(!) shots... Let me start my rant with our d-corps. Tonight, EVERY one of them was bad, Ceci being the best one. I'm the biggest Karlsson fanboy, homer, whatever, tonight he was awful, 25 years old, 6th year in the league, you have to be a lot smarter than that, everytime we play the Habs either he's a legend, or there are 5 breakaways against him. Then there's Methot, I think that's one of the worst games I've seen him play, how many times he got caught from behind and got his stick lift? Jesus. Karlsson in our d-zone some games he'll go pick up the puck from players in the corners some games he'll do the statue in front of the net while our center and Methot run around like chickens. Listen here, it's game 3 and I'm not on panic mode, just some things that I see a lot.
You know what the problem is when we play Montreal? We can't get the freaking puck out of our zone. Our big, tall and slow dmens (Cowen, Weir) get the puck and skate in ****ing sand and every speedy MTL forward get them back and lift their sticks. I don't know how many times it happened tonight. I am so freaking tired of watching Weircioch play I just dislike the player so much. When he tries to carry the puck or when he's behind the other team's net
his penalty such a bad player, so slowwwwwwwwwww and soooooooooooft. Cowen has been good this season but tonight it was harder for him, not bad but he made some crazy bad reverse plays, did have some good hits where he crushed the diver #11.Then the referees, man, we played dumb sometimes but I just don't get it. DSP gets Turris by the neck and we're outmaned 3-2 Methot sees it and jumps in to remove Mitchell from the pile, throws no punch, and we get the extra 2? A freaking weak call on Smith when we're already 4 on 5 to give them 1+min of 5 on 3, give me a break. Then same play 10x worse on their 3rd goal, MacArthur enters the zone and is hooked for 2m, no calls, goes the other way, scores... Refs are not the reason we lost, at all, but sometimes it changes the momentum that's all I am saying and tonight was a rough night for them. Gallagher and Subban are two comedians it's ridiculous, Stone crosschecks Gallagher and he dives like he's been shot, I just wish it was him that Ryan destroyed.
On Ryan and Zib, I see a lot of critics on them, but I thought tonight they created some chances on offense... Hoff Turris and Stone were off tonight, Zib had 2-3 good chances from the slot where he could have burried. Ryan made some nice plays also and I thought he was ok for real.
Credit where it's due though, Montreal played a good road game, they kept things simple and I thought we weren't generating any offense. Condon was good when he had to, he's a lot bigger than Tokarski and looks better too, their D group is very good too, Petry since joining them has been a stud. Although, I think it's easier to play with a lead in today's game (except for the Sens) and O'Connor let in a real softie on the 1st one that made us chase the whole game. Make the save on that and score the 2 posts we hit and maybe we win. I think you have to give Andy the home opener, 3 days in 4 night then we don't play till wednesday, guy's a pro, why can't he play? Tired? Oh well, it happens, I was just pretty disappointed on the road back home and I felt like publishing a novel. I repeat, no panic, just a few thoughts. On to Columbus!
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